I’m looking at both. And I’m especially looking at the league which nobody has ever won in October.
We will dig ourselves out of the slump, step by step
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But I think you can also say, as much as we were lucky in the first five, you can also point to hard lines in the one’s we’ve lost.
Against palace, we conceded a goal off a corner that shouldn’t have been given, and a second after the ref should have blown the whistle. Against United Oliver played on through an obvious head injury and we had a stonewall penalty turned down. Against Brentford, the winning penalty is a fucking joke, snd the one against Galatasaray was one of the softest I’ve ever seen.
What I think is true is that we’re about where we should be. We haven’t played well, but it’s also true to say where we’ve had lucky breaks (getting away with bad performances rather than getting decisions), we’ve also had some bad luck as well.
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I do think we probably deserved about 4pts more in that period than we actually got.
We probably didn’t deserve 3 against Newcastle (probably 1), I think we generally played ok for periods but not enough. That first half against Palace was however bad and Brentford was terrible.
Shame as I thought after Frankfurt we showed some shades of play.
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Yeah but Arne switched up the lineup again.
We look very beatable nowadays…
As do all the teams you’ve listed
Probably our only real chance at silverware. At home, and the Manager sends the youth out to the wolves. Gutless decision from him and the wrong one.
Then you haven’t been paying attention to the last 10 months of football we’ve played.
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Which would suggest that the manager doesn’t agree with you that its our only chance
Now that the Carabao is out if the way there’s nothing tp stop us winning the CL. After all, it was playing in CC final that lead us to exiting last season’s CL!
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I don’t think RM will ship 3 goals against Brentford…
Thats no use even if we win the flick on we can’t win 2nd balls 
Not sure why people think we have more chance of winning this than the FA Cup.
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“Mum, can we watch Liverpool play?”
“Look son, I’m not paying all that money on fancy football tickets. We have Liverpool at home…”
My suspicion with this team last night is that the club hierarchy have looked at the poor form, the injury list, and the likelihood that we may finish out of the top 8 in the CL (meaning extra games in February) and decided that the League Cup was a needless distraction. Play the fringe and the kids, and if they win, best of luck to them.
I only voted for Nallo, because I frankly wanted to hug the poor lad. It’s not the start to a career that you dreamt of as a kid.
I thought they looked OK for the first half hour or so, but the pressure got to them after a while, which was understandable.
I’m not reading too much into this game and I won’t lose sleep over it. We will probably see on Saturday whether resting the first choice players was the right move. Although having them sitting in the torrential rain was probably not the best idea.
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If that game was at Selhurst Park, I guarantee Liverpool’s allocation of tickets would be well sold out.
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I think the priority should be getting back to winning games in the league, not the Carabou Cup. I wouldn’t want to win that, only to finish mid table or worse. As it stands, we’re dropping down the table at a rate of knots and it has to stop, or Slot will be gone.
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It’s clear to me now that the problem is the tactics and system. This team of youngsters played in exactly the same way as the 1st team. The only difference being they weren’t/aren’t individually good enough to score goals at this level.
It was depressing and extremely frustrating.
Watching a Gakpo clone on the left was really painful.
I thought Kerkez did well most of the match which was promising however once he lost Sarr, who went to the centre (should have had someone on him all the time) we couldn’t manage.
We are in a position where whoever plays we huff and we puff and we fall over ourselves.
Slot has to revise his system however I have a feeling he won’t and will end up blaming the players. I think I want him out as soon as possible.
The manager threw the game, most of the young ones struggled and the pressure intensified. It better be worth it, we better start winning now, because this one left a very sour taste.
Ramsey and Gordon are the only positives and the latter came on after it was already out of reach. Woodman didn’t do anything wrong either.
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I don’t see how you figure this was our best way to secure European football. If you think we can’t start winning in the league because of our form, then what makes you think our best 11 could have beaten Palace who we haven’t beaten so far for 4 games, and then have a decent chance with Arsenal and City still in it. If we can win this with those teams to face, then we can start winning our next few games in the league, no?
I thought this was the only way to go about it.
Slot was in front of a decision, whether to focus on this game, together with his starting 11, and then have 3 days to recover and focus on Villa (assuming no one got injured in the process), which is a win-or-die game, or to send the subs and youngsters and have 6 days to train and find solutions, and play well rested, for the game that can keep us hoping if we win it, or prolong the free fall if we don’t.
I think that regardless of what happens on Saturday, the intention and the decision was right. The opposite decision would be like sabotaging ourselves from a very crucial league game, minimizing our chances. Slot is trying to maximize our chances. I just hope that it pays off and we get the win.
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Well we do have lots of fans down in that London.
Until I retired a couple of years ago I used to work down there one week a month for 15 years…and I was amazed that several of the staff were keen LFC fans. It seemed very odd discussing our team with fans with the wrong accent. I can never understand anyone supporting a team when they have no connection at all to the city. Mind you I do know two scousers, neither of which have any Manchester connections, who are lifelong City supporters since school days.. Strange.
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